From Arkansas-
One of the Rev. Joyce Hardy's favorite things was to stand in Little
Rock's Christ Episcopal Church before services and welcome the people
entering its narthex.
"I'm getting lots and lots of stories ... that Joyce is the
first person somebody met when they came to Christ Church," said the
Rev. Kate Alexander, rector of the church, where the 68-year-old Hardy
served as deacon from 2005 until her death earlier this month of
melanoma. "By the next week she'd remember their name and welcome them
again."
Welcoming others was one of Hardy's duties as a longtime deacon in
the Episcopal Church but only a piece of her legacy. The social justice
advocate has been described as a champion for the marginalized and
underprivileged, and as a person who truly found her calling.
Those discerning their calling as ordained ministers in the church
are called to be a deacon or a priest, Alexander said. Priests work
within the institutional church, while deacons mostly focus on the world
outside their church buildings, seeing and helping to meet the needs of
their communities.
More here-
https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/may/30/late-deacon-was-the-face-of-lr-church-2/
Opinion – 21 December 2024
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